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Appendix C Keyboard
Compaq Personal Computers
Changed - April 1998
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C.2.3.3 Windows Keystrokes
Windows-enhanced keyboards include three additional key positions. Key positions 110 and 111
(marked with the Windows logo ) have the same functionality and are used by themselves
or in combination with other keys to perform specific “hot-key” type functions for the Windows
operating system. The defined functions of the Windows logo keys are listed as follows:
Keystroke Function
Window Logo Open Start menu
Window Logo + F1 Display pop-up menu for the selected object
Window Logo + TAB Activate next task bar button
Window Logo + E Explore my computer
Window Logo + F Find document
Window Logo + CTRL + F Find computer
Window Logo + M Minimize all
Shift + Window Logo + M Undo minimize all
Window Logo + R Display Run dialog box
Window Logo + PAUSE Perform system function
Window Logo + 1-0 Reserved for OEM use (see following text)
The combination keystroke of the Window Logo + 1-0 keys are reserved for OEM use for
auxiliary functions (speaker volume, monitor brightness, password, etc.).
Key position 112 (marked with an application window icon ) is used in combination with
other keys for invoking Windows application functions.